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Yoda: World Maps — Russia A+ NGA C-

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yoda with light saberInside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers

The US military made maps during the Cold War too, of course, but the two superpowers had different mapping strategies that reflected their different military strengths … the US military rarely made maps more detailed than 1:250,000, and generally only did so for areas of special strategic interest. “The Soviets, on the other hand, were the global leaders in tank technology,” Forbes says. “One to 50,000 scale is globally considered among the military to be the tactical scale for ground forces,” Forbes says.

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Patrick Cockburn: Changing Balance of Power in Syria

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards
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Too Weak, Too Strong

Patrick Cockburn on the state of the Syrian war

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The Russian intervention in Syria, the greater involvement of Iran and the Shia powers, and the rise of the Syrian Kurds has not yet changed the status quo in Iraq and Syria, though it has the potential to do so.

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Berto Jongman: USA Disappearing Middle Class – More than Half Make Less Than $30,000 a Year

01 Poverty, 03 Economy
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berto smallMore Than Half of All Americans Make Under $30,000 a Year, According to a Shocking New Report

Wage statistics for 2014, recently released by the Social Security Administration, provide proof to the claim we all feared was true: The middle class is actually disappearing. As the online publication Washington’s Blog notes, 51 percent of U.S. workers in 2014 made less than $2,500 a month before taxes—which is below the poverty line for a family of five. What’s worse is that as the numbers in the original report are parsed, other stunning facts become clear. For instance, the fact that nearly 40 percent of Americans aren’t even making $30,000 but rather are earning closer to $20,000. Or that 70 percent of workers made less than $50,000 in 2014.

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Mongoose: Exxon – 40 Years of Lies on Climate Change

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 05 Energy, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
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Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago

A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation

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By 1989 the company had helped create the Global Climate Coalition (disbanded in 2002) to question the scientific basis for concern about climate change. It also helped to prevent the U.S. from signing the international treaty on climate known as the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 to control greenhouse gases. Exxon’s tactic not only worked on the U.S. but also stopped other countries, such as China and India, from signing the treaty. At that point, “a lot of things unraveled,” Oreskes says.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Multiple sclerosis is curable Lyme disease — lies & fraud abound

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities
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Sepp Hasslberger

Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological illnesses could be cured … but the bacterial cause – Borrelia Burgdorferi is actively denied by pharmaceutical medicine. A scandal of the first order, one might say.

Multiple sclerosis is Lyme disease: Anatomy of a cover-up

Perhaps the biggest ongoing medical scandal of the past hundred years is the fact that it has been known since 1911 that Multiple Sclerosis is caused by a bacterium, and that the Big-Pharma-controlled medical-industrial complex covered this up in order to make money selling symptom relievers to MS patients.

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